11.20.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Off the shelf I’ve always liked having books around. Filled bookcases have been part of the furniture everywhere I’ve lived. And I enjoyed having the books as much as reading them. Sometimes...
11.14.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Second hand I wonder how many readers out there remember Billy Gauvreau. He maintained for many years a perpetual yard sale out in front of his trailer on Midway Road. I...
11.06.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Staying careful “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go!” There won’t be much of this going on for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Everybody is being warned...
10.28.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Losing your way “Are you having a senior moment PopPop?” That was the question posed by a grandchild last week as I got totally lost trying to get her to school in...
10.25.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Standing corrected “Newspapering is an inexact science.” I remember the long-ago editor and publisher of this newspaper, Bob Dunne, saying this whenever there was a mistake of some kind in the...